Pay cuts being reconsidered…

JFAC is now debating between competing motions on state personnel cost cuts - both of which would eliminate the 3 percent across-the-board pay cuts for state employees the panel approved earlier, in favor of just leaving discretion to agency directors on how to make the cuts. Said Rep. Maxine Bell, R-Jerome, “I hope for the state employees that this is best. I’ve had some very very mean emails. … All the time all I wanted to do was save jobs.”